Bernard Holland Quotes
It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
Quotes to Explore
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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After the Pearl Harbor attacks, around 120,000 Japanese Americans were jailed in internment camps. If an attack on U.S. soil were perpetrated by people who were not white and Christian, we can be pretty damn sure that racists would have a field day.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, 'Gladiator' suggests what would happen if someone made a movie of the imminent extreme-football league and shot it as if it were a Chanel commercial.
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I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.
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I run in the morning, lift weights in the afternoon, basketball training at night, and then lift weights again at night.
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I want to believe humanity has not forgotten how to explore.
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I don't want anyone part of my love life besides me and the person I'm loving.
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Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
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There is a perception in our communities that we have low educational outcomes in low-income communities because kids aren't motivated or families don't care. We've discovered that is not the case.
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Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.
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An activist is someone who cannot help but fight for something. That person is not usually motivated by a need for power or money or fame, but in fact is driven slightly mad by some injustice, some cruelty, some unfairness, so much so that he or she is compelled by some internal moral engine to act to make it better.
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It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated.
